Brazil's Rousseff says fiscal balance a priority for new economic team

BRASILIA Dec 21 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Dilma
Rousseff said on Monday that the country's needs to overhaul its
regulatory framework and reform its tax system to become more
competitive.

Speaking at the assumption of Nelson Barbosa as her new
finance minister in place of the departing Joaquim Levy,
Rousseff said the priorities of the new economic team will
continue to be balancing the country's fiscal accounts and
restoring growth.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Chris Reese)